Re: Tokyo 2020 - You didn't think it was over did you?
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Drumstick
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One man should not have this much power in this game. Luckily I'm not an ordinary man.
One man should not have this much power in this game. Luckily I'm not an ordinary man.
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Dowbocop
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KingK wrote:I said out loud that the Taekwondo looked like 2 drunk blokes fighting in a bad YouTube video (“yeah? You want some? come on then!”), and that the ladies Judo looked like 2 mums wrestling in their dressing gowns.
I know both sports have their fans and I’m sure are technical as hell, but to the untrained eye, they don’t look anything other than some random kicks or grappling. At least I can appreciate the skateboarding skills, although I was surprised just how many fell off considering they’re the best in the world
When you have two evenly matched Judoka they sorry of nullify each other and you end up with a very cagey match. There are also a lot of rules about attacking intent etc which I'm not fully up on as I do Ju-Jitsu and not Judo. A lot of the techniques are hip based throws which involve the fighter turning their back as they throw. If this gets defended you find yourself with your back to your opponent and open to a rear choke which would end the fight instantly, which is why you often find the attacking fighter turtling on the floor if the throw is unsuccessful. Counters can't also be quite confusing. I love watching it though!
Taekwondo is a bit odd with how they go for quite tickly head kicks and I find it quite hard to watch sometimes, but Sinden's final was great drama. I'm more excited than I thought I would be for the Karate kumite (sparring) and kata (forms).
Well done Pidcock! And come on Williams!
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Knoyleo
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pjbetman wrote:That's the stupidest thing ive ever read on here i think.
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poshrule_uk
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Knoyleo
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57966293
Tokyo 2020: S Korea TV sorry for using pizza to depict Italy
Pizza for Italy, Dracula for Romania and Chernobyl for Ukraine.
These were the pictures and captions used by a South Korean broadcaster to depict nations at the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
MBC has since apologised for offending viewers, after complaints the visuals were "offensive" and "ridiculous".
The channel said it wanted to make it easier for viewers to understand the entering countries quickly but said it was an "inexcusable mistake".
At a press conference on Monday, the channel's CEO Park Sung-jae apologised, saying MBC had "damaged the Olympic values of friendship, solidarity and harmony".
"I bow my head and deeply apologise," he said, adding that MBC would be putting "in all [their] effort to prevent another accident from happening".
A Twitter thread by freelance journalist Raphael Rashid drew wide attention to the "unique" descriptions where even civil unrest was not off the cards.
When Haiti's athletes walked on to the stadium, for instance, an on-screen caption described the country as one "with an unstable political situation due to the assassination of the president".
And when the Syrian team entered, a caption read: "A civil war that has been going on for 10 years."
"Did they literally just pick whatever the first picture was that popped up on Google when they did an image search for the country?" one person asked on Twitter.
Others started trying to guess what images would be used for different countries.
Some - like a piece of salmon for Norway - would have been easy enough to figure out. Others like Chad which was described as the "dark heart of Africa" could not have been.
MBC has been in trouble for this very same offence before.
It was fined after using similar captions and images at the Opening Ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It had then referred to Zimbabwe "as a country with deadly inflation".
pjbetman wrote:That's the stupidest thing ive ever read on here i think.
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Lotus
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Nice to wake up 3 golds and 1 silver 
Pleased for Tom Daley and Matty Lee. Can't say I know much about mountain biking, but will try and check out the highlights later.
Adam Peaty is ridiculous - an absolute beast, and utterly dominant. Crazy good.
Pleased for Tom Daley and Matty Lee. Can't say I know much about mountain biking, but will try and check out the highlights later.
Adam Peaty is ridiculous - an absolute beast, and utterly dominant. Crazy good.
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Tomous
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I like how the headline focuses on Italy whereas the Ukraine imagery was far worse 
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